Main study taxa
Rearing
Trait measurements
Behavioural observations (direct and video tracking)
Field sampling
Species ID (Western Europe)
maxime.dahirel@ugent.be
maxime.dahirel@yahoo.fr
@mdahirel
@mdahirel
mdahirel.github.io/
0000-0001-8077-7765
Rearing
Trait measurements
Behavioural observations (direct and video tracking)
Field sampling
Species ID (Western Europe)
Bayesian & frequentist statistics
Linear models and extensions
(Any and all combinations of generalized, mixed, non-linear, or multivariate)
Multivariate ordination and classification
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My researches on the causes and consequences of individual-level variation are split along two linked axes:
I develop these research themes using a combination of lab and outdoor experiments, monitoring in naturalistic contexts and individual-based models.
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Ghent University, Terrestrial Ecology unit
Ghent, Belgium
2023 - 2021
INRAE (formerly INRA), Institut Sophia Agrobiotech
Sophia-Antipolis, France
2021 - 2019
University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
Rennes, France
2018 - 2016
Ghent University, Terrestrial Ecology unit
Ghent, Belgium
2016 - 2015
University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
Rennes, France
2014 - 2011
University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
Rennes, France
2018 - 2016
University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
Rennes, France
2012 - 2011
Statistics and data science (lectures and practical)
Advanced R for data analysis (1st year of MSc) ~ 20h
Statistical tools, methodologies, and experimental design (2nd year of BSc to 1st year of MSc) ~ 230h
Ecology (lab and field)
General ecology (1st year of BSc) ~ 80h
Community ecology (3rd year of BSc and 1st year of MSc) ~ 42h
Spatial ecology (movement ecology; 1st year of MSc) ~ 4h
Ecological bases of vegetal production (3rd year of BSc) ~ 12h
Initiation to GIS (2nd year of BSc) ~ 4h
Zoology (lab and field)
Introduction to the diversity of life (1st year of BSc) ~ 30h
Entomology (3rd year of BSc) ~ 40h
Physiology of nutrition, development, growth (3rd year of BSc); ~ 6h
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Experimental evolution
Data synthesis and individual-based modelling
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present - 2020
Field and lab studies of dispersal and behaviour
Data synthesis and individual-based modelling
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present - 2012
See list of current students here
€166 320
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2023 - 2021
€1 500
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2018
€24 600
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2016 - 2015
Research I have participated in has also been featured by various press outlets including the RTBF, De Standaard, Scientific American, Le Temps, as well as local journals and television channels.
Online science workshop (targeted to 6-12 year olds): invited for a session on snail biology, urban ecology (in French)
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2022
Discussions of current topics and articles in urban ecology and evolution
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since 2018
Archives (in French) here
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2018
Public talk and discussion, Pint of Science
Rennes, France
2017
with Balbi, M.
including Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Functional Ecology, Journal of Animal Ecology, Oikos, PCI Ecology, Ethology…
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Reviewing Research and Outreach Grant applications (6 to 8 / year)
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University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
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2014 - 2012
bioRxiv preprint
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2022
bioRxiv preprint
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2020
Ecology Letters, 25(12): 2675-2687
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2022
Journal of Zoology, 318(3): 191-192
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2022
Science, 375(6586): 1275-1281
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2022
Current Zoology, in press
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2022
bioRxiv preprint, peer-reviewed and recommended by Peer Community In Evolutionary Biology
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2021
Ethology, 127(4):321-333
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2021
Oikos, 130(5): 708-725
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2021
Journal of Zoology, 313(3):172-181
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2021
Biodiversity Data Journal, 8: e50451
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2020
Parasite, 27: 15
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2020
Global Change Biology, 26(3): 1196–1211
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2020
Journal of Experimental Biology, 222(16): jeb203596
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2019
The Science of Nature, 106: 43
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2019
Journal of Animal Ecology, 88(1): 79–91
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2019
Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2: 1859–1863
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2018
Nature, 558: 113–116
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2018
Ecology Letters, 21(2): 225–234
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2018
Ecological Research, 32(5): 751–755
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2017
Ecology, 98(9): 2379–2390
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2017
Oikos, 126(4): 472–479
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2017
Oecologia, 181(4): 1117–1128
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2016
Journal of Zoology, 299(2): 98–105
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2016
Canadian Journal of Zoology, 93(8): 665–669
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2015
Journal of Animal Ecology, 84(1): 228–238
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2015
Population Ecology, 56(1): 227–237
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2014
(Talks or posters as non-presenting author not included)
SFE² - GFÖ - EEF joint meeting
Metz, France
2022
Annual Meeting of the British Ecological Society
Belfast, UK
2019
Ecology Across Borders, joint conference of the BES, GfÖ and NeCoV
Ghent, Belgium
2017
“Dispersal – Connecting networks”, EVENET Movement and Dispersal conference
Ghent, Belgium
2017
16th conference of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
Exeter, UK
2016
9th “Ecology & Behaviour” SERL meeting
Strasbourg, France
2013
8th “Ecology & Behaviour” SERL meeting
Chizé, France
2012
67th meeting of the Entomological Society of America
St Louis, USA
2019
15th conference of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology
New York, USA
2014
Movement and Dispersal International Conference
Aberdeen, UK
2013
Causes and Consequences of Organism Dispersal
Lund, Sweden
2013
Ecology Across Borders, joint conference of the BES, GfÖ and NeCoV
Ghent, Belgium
2017
University of Rennes 1
Rennes, France
2011 - 2009
University of Rennes 1
Rennes, France
2009 - 2006
authorized to apply for Lecturer/Assistant Professor positions in France, section 67 (Population Biology and Ecology)
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Ghent University, Terrestrial Ecology unit
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INRAE, Institut Sophia Agrobiotech
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University of Rennes 1, ECOBIO (Ecosystems, Biodiversity, Evolution)
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Made in R with pagedown
Code on GitHub
Animal silhouettes from Phylopic:
snail by Gareth Monger
spider by Birgit Lang
CV last updated on 2022-12-01.